[Editor's Note: Tuesday Video Alert is a weekly column announcing "notable" titles fresh to DVD and/or Blu-ray, sometimes as reissues, and in every region under the sun.]

Essential:

Something Wild [The Criterion Collection, DVD/Blu-ray, Region 1]: "One of the last films from Jonathan Demme's most fecund period, Something Wild provides a rhythm to which we can revolutionize our private lives." Joseph Jon Lanthier

Blue Valentine [Anchor Bay Entertainment, DVD/Blu-ray, Region 1]: "Director Derek Cianfrance's Blue Valentine is a viscerally raw and lyrically stylized reverie for first love lost." Paul Brunick

The Illusionist [Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, DVD/Blu-ray, Region 1]: "Paying painterly, loving homage to a cinema legend, The Illusionist envelops its audience in Sylvain Chomet's artful animation and quaintly realized world." Bill Weber

Hail the Conquering Hero [Universal Studios Home Video, DVD, Region 1].

Christmas in July [Universal Studios Home Video, DVD, Region 1].

My Little Chickadee [Universal Studios Home Video, DVD, Region 1].

The Manchurian Candidate [MGM Home Entertainment, Blu-ray, Region 1].

The Misfits [MGM Home Entertainment, Blu-ray, Region 1].

Some Like It Hot [MGM Home Entertainment, Blu-ray, Region 1].

The Terminator [MGM Home Entertainment, Blu-ray, Region 1].

Netflix It:

Black Death [Magnolia Home Entertainment, DVD/Blu-ray, Region 1]: Grim aesthetics and an even grimmer worldview define Black Death, in which ardent piousness and defiant paganism both prove paths toward violence, hypocrisy, and hell." Nick Schager

Alien [20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, Blu-ray, Region 1]: "The austere minimalism of Ridley Scott's Alien has kept it from becoming dated." Jeremiah Kipp

Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World [20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, Blu-ray, Region 1]: "Master and Commander, an ambitious seafaring epic, almost holds its rickety hull together thanks to Russell Crowe's intense, broad-shouldered star power and Peter Weir's minute attention to period detail." JK

Aliens [20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, Blu-ray, Region 1].

Alien³ [20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, Blu-ray, Region 1].

Alien Resurrection [20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, Blu-ray, Region 1].

Rocky [MGM Home Entertainment, Blu-ray, Region 1].

The Horse Soldiers [MGM Home Entertainment, Blu-ray, Region 1].

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid [20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, Blu-ray, Region 1].

Twelve O'Clock High [20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, Blu-ray, Region 1].

Patton [20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, Blu-ray, Region 1].

The Sign of the Cross [Universal Studios Home Entertainment, DVD, Region 1].

Bananas!* [Oscilloscope Laboratories, DVD, Region 1].

The Theo Van Gough Collection [Network Releasing, DVD, Region 2].

The Pillow Book [Park Circus, Blu-ray, Region 2].

Laputa: Castle in the Sky [Studio Ghibli, DVD/Blu-ray, Region 2].

My Neighbours The Yamadas [Studio Ghibli, DVD/Blu-ray, Region 2].

His Kind of Woman [Odeon Entertainment, DVD, Region 2].

Rififi [Arrow Academy, DVD/Blu-ray, Region 2].

Born to Be Bad [Odeon Entertainment, DVD, Region 2].

The Complete Avengers 50th Anniversary Edition [Optimum Home Entertainment, DVD, Region 2].

Home Improvement: 20th Anniversary Complete Collection [ABC Studios, DVD, Region 1].

Future Coasters:

Cropsey [Breaking Glass Pictures, DVD, Region 1]: "Cropsey turns what might have been a portrait of the boogeyman myth's lingering societal role into merely a crude episode of 48 Hours." NS

The Usual Suspects [MGM Home Entertainment, Blu-ray, Region 1]: "The Usual Suspects has always kind of sat there, hoping that you'll love it for its twist ending." Ed Gonzalez

No Strings Attached [Paramount Home Entertainment, DVD/Blu-ray, Region 1]: "Never mind its veneer of crude, insouciant cool: Ivan Reitman's No Strings Attached is a desperate movie, scrambling to patch its by-the-numbers story with hastily tacked-on bona fides. " Jesse Cataldo

I Saw the Devil [Magnolia Home Entertainment, DVD/Blu-ray, Region 1]: "I Saw the Devil is another Korean revenge fantasy that negates its moralizing by wallowing in the ghastliness it nominally asserts is unfulfilling and destructive." NS

How I Ended This Summer [Film Movement, DVD, Region 1]: "A sort of reductio ad absurdum of the long-take approach to filmmaking, How I Ended This Summer is tedium incarnate—which may be precisely director Alexei Popogrebsky's point." Andrew Schenker

Justin Bieber: Never Say Never [Paramount Home Entertainment, DVD/Blu-ray, Region 1]: "Never Say Never is the story of a YouTube fairy tale manifest; it's the saga of the power of social media, luck, and mass hysteria, and the perfect storm that ensues when all three amorphous concepts come together in harmony." Robert Tumas

Now & Later [Cinema Libre, DVD, Region 1]: "Shrilly over-written and artlessly directed by Philippe Diaz, and with the same presumptuousness he brought to the documentary The End of Povery?, Now & Later follows stilted talk with stilted sex." EG